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TIL #1: Font weights in the browser

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Stealing an idea from somewhere (that I would link if I could remember where!) when I learn something worth sharing (especially if it’s from a small blog like this one) I’m going to reshare it here. This will likely evolve into a full separate section, but for now, here it is. So, I now realise why the Jekyll theme that became the basis for the custom styles of this site included an explicit numerical font weight and it is because of some odd default choices in Safari.

Go Hugo!

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I’ve just moved the site over from Jekyll to Hugo. Why? Because I have a growing vendetta against Ruby and (relatedly so) it was easier to make a webhook-based build system for Hugo. No matter what I do, I can never get RVM set up right, I can just about manage Python Venvs! This all spiraled from trying to finish my build system, as these things do. Now every time I push to master in my git repo, the site will be automatically built and copied in place, which was the last piece missing for a self-hosted equivalent to GitHub Pages.